Being resourceful

There are 88 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Being resourceful
Two and Two
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Two and Two

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Where can we visit?
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Where can we visit?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Charlie and Abi put a counter on 42. They wondered if they could visit all the other numbers on their 1-100 board, moving the counter using just these two operations: x2 and -5. What do you think?
Funny Factorisation
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Funny Factorisation

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?
How old am I?
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How old am I?

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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In 15 years' time my age will be the square of my age 15 years ago. Can you work out my age, and when I had other special birthdays?
Dozens
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Dozens

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you select the missing digit(s) to find the largest multiple?
4 Dom
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4 Dom

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
Number Lines in Disguise
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Number Lines in Disguise

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?
Satisfying Four Statements
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Satisfying Four Statements

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you find any two-digit numbers that satisfy all of these statements?